LEADER 03590nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910962387703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9780299233136 010 $a0299233138 024 7 $a2027/heb08406 035 $a(CKB)2670000000016004 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000335540 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11261342 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000335540 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10272687 035 $a(PQKB)10870805 035 $a(OCoLC)646862820 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12378 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3444895 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348734 035 $a(dli)HEB08406 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000011659286 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3444895 035 $a(Perlego)4507574 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000016004 100 $a20090309d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCaptain Rock $ethe Irish agrarian rebellion of 1821-1824 /$fJames S. Donnelly, Jr 210 $aMadison, Wis. $cUniversity of Wisconsin Press$dc2009 215 $ax, 508 p. $cill., maps 225 1 $aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9780299233143 311 08$a0299233146 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aNamed for its mythical leader "Captain Rock, " avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Originating in west Limerick, the Rockite movement spread quickly under the impact of a prolonged economic depression. Before long the insurgency embraced many of the better-off farmers. The intensity of the Rockites' grievances, the frequency of their resort to sensational violence, and their appeal on such key issues as rents and tithes presented a nightmarish challenge to Dublin Castle-prompting in turn a major reorganization of the police, a purging of the local magistracy, the introduction of large military reinforcements, and a determined campaign of judicial repression. A great upsurge in sectarianism and millenarianism, Donnelly shows, added fuel to the conflagration. Inspired by prophecies of doom for the Anglo-Irish Protestants who ruled the country, the overwhelmingly Catholic Rockites strove to hasten the demise of the landed elite they viewed as oppressors. Drawing on a wealth of sources-including reports from policemen, military officers, magistrates, and landowners as well as from newspapers, pamphlets, parliamentary inquiries, depositions, rebel proclamations, and threatening missives sent by Rockites to their enemies- Captain Rock offers a detailed anatomy of a dangerous, widespread insurgency whose distinctive political contours will force historians to expand their notions of how agrarian militancy influenced Irish nationalism in the years before the Great Famine of 1845-51. 410 0$aHistory of Ireland and the Irish diaspora. 606 $aPeasant uprisings$zIreland$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aIreland$xHistory$y1800-1837 615 0$aPeasant uprisings$xHistory 676 $a941.5081 700 $aDonnelly$b James S$080485 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910962387703321 996 $aCaptain Rock$91867397 997 $aUNINA